The last three days I have been contemplating on whether or not to sign up for the course my council is about to put on in late October and early November this year (SR-797 -- 10/27-29 and 11/10-12/2006)--my council's 3rd course of Wood Badge For The 21st Century.
I went through Boy Scout Leader Wood Badge during the fall of 1998 (SR-216). I was beaded on 8/30/1999. Then I served on the staff as an Assistant Quartermaster for my council's first Wood Badge For The 21st Century course (SR-579)--held during September 2003.
Even though I knew that ones who had taken prior versions of Wood Badge could take the current version (my council's first course of the current version held during 9/2003 had 3 participants that were bead holders from the prior version of Wood Badge), I figure I was eliminated from taking the current version as a participant since I was on the staff for our council's first Wood Badge For The 21st Century course.
However, at a Wood Badge Reunion/Promotion my council held this past weekend, I was very surprised when I was asked by the course mentor for our council's upcoming course (she was the course director for the last course held during September 2004) if I was planning on taking this upcoming Wood Badge course and she and about 2-3 others on the staff started encouraging me to take it (my council is still trying to meet the minimum required number of participants (30) so that they can hold the course, they are somewhere in the 20s at the moment).
I was wondering if there are any others out there that took one of the prior versions of Wood Badge as a participant, served on staff for the current version, and then took the current version as a participant?
I know I would have fun, meet new people, and learn something from it, I just find it a little weird that I, a prior staff member of the current version of Wood Badge (a 3-bead holder), would now be a participant in a course of the current version of Wood Badge.